Kyle Bennett breaks bad on Commodore Gaming’s PR guy.
I know Commodore Gaming’s PC just made my short list of companies that there is no way in Hell I would buy from.
This is why I’ve been a [H]ardOCP fan for so many years.
Computer News
ATI Catalyst 7.9's Are Out
ATI has new drivers out for XP & Vista (32 & 64-bit).
iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours;
iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones
There are apps that age gracefully, staying functional and relevant for months or years with no changes at all…and then there’s iTunes.
Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW
This is one of my all-time favorite tools. Anyone who works on or with computers will at some point or another find this tool indispensable.
System Information for Windows – “Everything you want to know about your PC”.
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Doh!
I was cleaning out some spam comments and deleted some good ones by mistake. If your comment disappeared, thats why.
(actually, I clicked ‘delete’ on one comment and 3 or 4 disappeared, wordpress bug???)
😳
iPod News
TechNet Magazine Spotlight on PageDefrag
PageDefrag can defragment the Windows page file, Registry hives, event logs, and the hibernation file (the area on disk where memory is saved when a notebook jumps into hibernation mode). The program optimizes these files during the PC’s bootup sequence before they’re in use.
ProcessExplorer v11.0 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Process Explorer v11, which introduces major startup and UI performance improvements, new columns and process details for Vista I/O priorities, memory priorities, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) DLL and executable attributes, an enhanced security properties page that shows raw SID values, fully asynchronous thread symbol resolution, integration with UAC, and more!
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Three Really Cool Vista Visual Tweaks
Vista Service Pack 1
🙄 Not until next year.
Apparently XP SP3 will follow that.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview (MS Whitepaper, pdf)
While Microsoft’s continued requests for businesses to not wait for SP1 before deploying Windows Vista may seem self-serving, this week’s revelations about the feature set of the service pack suggest that this advice is sound. Windows Vista SP1 looks like a solid and necessary update, but it will not dramatically impact the end user at all. If you’re a Windows enthusiast, Vista SP1 is more a curiosity than something to get excited about. It will not include anything interesting or compelling, in an end user sense, such as a new Media Center version. (Which is also overdue, incidentally.) Hopefully, this will end the speculation. I only wish Microsoft had been this upfront about SP1 months ago. It’s been a long time coming.